Radeon HD 6870 officially at 900MHz

The chip that was supposed to replace Radeon HD 5770 and HD 5750 and that mysteriously ended up with Radeon HD 6870 and Radeon HD 6850 moniker has finally got its clock. It runs at 900MHz.

As we speak AMD is telling chosen press representatives about the specifics of the chips and how they plan to dominate the word. We still don’t see many ATI Radeon HD 5870 owners to be that hot for AMD Radeon HD 6870. I guess the message is that AMD's Radeon is not as good as ATI’s, and of course we are joking, but let us get burned by our beloved fanboys in the comments section. (You mean to tell me that we have fanboys commenting our stories? No way. sub.ed.)

The GDDR5 works at 1050MHz or 4200MHz if you consider that the GDDR5 is quad band and that the card has a 256-bit memory controller. Of course it has a dual slot cooler and of it supports CrossFire. The card also has two six pin power connectors.

The US retail price should land somewhere around 250 USD and we guess that 250 euro should be quite realistic price for EU countries that use this currency. We just got word that the price will be closer to €250, not € / $300 as originally reported.

Launch is on the 22nd October, next Friday and this should be the availability day, at least for a few lucky ones as everything indicates that Radeon HD 6870 might be in short supply.

The chip that was supposed to replace Radeon HD 5770 and HD 5750 and that mysteriously ended up with Radeon HD 6870 and Radeon HD 6850 has finally got its clock. It works at 900MHz.

As we speak, AMD is telling to elite press who they like, about the specifics of the chips and how they plan to dominate the word and we still don’t see many ATI Radeon HD 5870 owners to be that hot for AMD Radeon HD 6870. I guess the message is that AMD Radeon is not as good as ATI’s, and of course we are joking, but let us be burned by our beloved fan boys at the comment section.

The GDDR5 works at 1050MHz or 4200MHz if you consider that the GDDR5 is quad band and that the card has 256 bit memory controller.

Of course it’s a dual slot fan and of course it does support crossfire cable and has two six pin power connectors.

US retail price should land somewhere around 300 USD and we guess that 300 Euro should be quite realistic price for EU countries who use this currency.

Launch is on the 22nd October, next Friday and this should be the availability day, at least for a few lucky ones as it all implicates that Radeon HD 6870 might be in short supply.